zipper
UK/ˈzɪpə(ɹ)//ˈzɪpɚ/
zipper noun: a zip fastener.
Noun
zipper (plural zippers)
- A zip fastener.
- He got his T-shirt stuck in the zipper of his jacket.
- A pressure-sensitive plastic closure, as on a Ziploc bag.
- A leucine zipper.
- A scar on a person's body.
- I also competed in track and field at Idaho, and it's all because of putting the shot that I've got my long scar, my zipper, down the back of my neck.1969, Jerry Kramer, Farewell to football, page 111
- Making the transition from high school to college teams, for instance, he could not believe the scars his new players were sporting. "So many athletes had zippers down the side of their knee, or knees; they thought nothing of it and called this or that a Band-Aid operation. […]1979, Don Atyeo, Blood & guts, violence in sports, page 227
- An air patrol carried out at dawn or dusk.
- […] the usual gap between the time the last strike of the day departed and the first night hecklers arrived was closed with "zippers" — night fighters who, using day fighter tactics, proceeded to the target in daylight in time to relieve the last day blanket patrol.1949, Walter Karig, Battle Report
- They would handle all the night combat air patrols, the night hecklers who would go over the enemy airfields, and we formed a new little gimmick called "zippers" to help close that gap between the time the daylight strikes left the target and darkness.1993, E. T. Wooldridge, Carrier Warfare in the Pacific: An Oral History Collection, page 268
- A string of clothes pegs or clips attached to the body and then quickly pulled off.
- A technique for arbitrarily traversing an aggregate data structure and updating its contents. See zipper (data structure).
- A zipline.
- Skills acquired include learning the "Flea Hop" and the "Tarzan Swing" as well as "Riding the Zipper" (sliding 400 feet on a cable between two mountain peaks), canoeing in white-water rapids, bushwacking and learning to "rappel" hundreds of feet down sheer rock cliffs on a rope.1975 July, The Barium Messenger, Barium Springs, NC, page 2, column 3
Verb
zipper (third-person singular simple present zippers, present participle zippering, simple past and past participle zippered)
- To close a zipper.
- He zippered his sweater against the cold.
- Antonyms:
- unzipper, unzip, zipper down, zip down
- To put a zipper on an article.
- These fall jackets are zippered.
- To act in a manner similar to a zipper closing; to interleave.
- If more drivers knew how to zipper, the accident would not have disrupted traffic so much.
- To unzipper.
- Synonyms:
- zipper down, zip down, unzip
zipper meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
zipper in Hindi
- जिपर, ज़िपर
zipper in Tamil
- பற்பிணை, சிப்பர்
zipper in Marathi
- झिपर, झिपर करण्यासाठी
zipper in Urdu
- زپر
More languagesFewer languages
- zipper in Bengali
- জিপার, জিপারকে
- zipper in Telugu
- జిప్పర్
- zipper in Malayalam
- സിപ്പർ, സിപ്പെർ
- zipper in Kannada
- ಜಿಪ್ಪರ್
- zipper in Punjabi
- ਜ਼ਿੱਪਰ, ਜ਼ਿਪਰ, ਜਿੱਪਰ
- zipper in Gujarati
- ઝિપર, ઝીપર
- zipper in Odia
- ଜିପର, ଜିପ୍ପର୍
- zipper in Nepali
- जिपर, जिप्पर, जिपार
Examples of zipper in a sentence
- If you’ve had to battle a stuck zipper, you know how frustrating it can be.
- Now that the zipper has detached, my winter coat won't keep me very warm.
- Little Johnny got his willy stuck in his zipper.
Synonyms of zipper
Antonyms
Forms of zipper
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | zippers |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | zippers |
| present participle | zippering |
| past participle | zippered |
| past | zippered |
Origin of zipper
1925, zip + -er. The trade name was registered in 1925 by B.F. Goodrich for “boots made of rubber and fabric,” claiming use of the name since June 1923. No longer a registered trademark.
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Questions about zipper
- What does zipper mean?
- Zipper means a zip fastener.
- What is zipper in Hindi?
- Zipper in Hindi is जिपर, ज़िपर. See Zipper meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is zipper?
- Zipper can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce zipper?
- Zipper is pronounced /ˈzɪpɚ/ (US).
- What is the plural of zipper?
- The plural of zipper is zippers.
Words near zipper in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: zipper (page history and authors); zipper (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); zipper (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); zipper (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); zipper (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); zipper (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); zipper (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); zipper (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); zipper (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); zipper (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); zipper (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); zipper (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); zipper (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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